Cheyenne State Lottery / Legalized By Authority Of The Legislature, The Payment Of Prizes / Guaranteed By The State Bank!

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Verlag: Read & Co. Brokers; NY; pp.; ; VG; nc/nd (1876), 1876

Beschreibung

_____Single sheet, 11.75 x 6.25 ", printed on one side in red and green._____ Folded to sixths after issue, probably for miling. _____ For $2.00 per ticket each buyer has a chance of one of 500,000 cash prizes from $75,000 down to $2.00. _____ This "lottery" was one of a series of totally fraudulent schemes organized by James Monroe Pattee, "The King of Lotteries." He began in Omaha in 1871, then in Laramie 1875 and by 1876 had begun the "Cheyenne State Lottery" described here._____ . _____ By the following year Pattee had been hounded out of business by New York newspapers and Anthony Comstock in service of the Post Office Inspectors. _____ For a fascinating paper on Pattee and his operations see "The Omaha And Wyoming Lotteries" by Philip Gardiner Nordell (Annals of Wyoming / April 1962). _____https://archive.org/stream/annalsofwyom34121962wyom/annalsofwyom34121962wyom_djvu.txt. _____ Not in WorldCat (11/22)._____. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers P-02677

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Cheyenne State Lottery / Legalized By ...

Verlag: Read & Co. Brokers; NY; pp.; ; VG; nc/nd (1876)

Erscheinungsdatum: 1876

Einband: No Binding

Zustand: Very Good